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1824 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1824.

Events

May events

May 17 – The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland is authorised; construction begins the following month.^[1]

October events

October 29 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, in England, issues its first prospectus.^[2]

December events

December 31 - George Stephenson, his son Robert Stephenson, Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy.^[3]

Births

March births

March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California.

October births

October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869 (d. 1884).^[4]

November births

November 14 – James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).

Unknown date births

John Cooke, founder of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882).^[5]

Deaths

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References

^ Martin, Don (1995). The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and Associated Railways. Kirkintilloch: Strathkelvin District Libraries & Museums. ISBN 0-904966-41-0.
^ Carlson, Robert E. (1969). The Liverpool & Manchester Railway project, 1821–1831. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
^ Macnair, Miles (2007). William James (1771–1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-54-4.
^ Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
^ White, John H. Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive: its development, 1830–1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.

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